What no one wants to say about Karl Stefanovic's rumoured new girlfriend.

There’s something that we’re reluctant to say when it comes to Karl Stefanovic’s alleged new girlfriend, 33-year-old Jasmine Yarbrough.

The ‘news’ of the relationship has been splashed across the tabloids.

Headlines read Meet the girl who put a smile back on Karl’s dial,Karl Stefanovic’s new girlfriend: Who is Jasmine Yarbrough? and the Daily Mail published Karl to go public with new girlfriend, as though they hadn’t already done that for him.

There are paparazzi pictures of the two lazing on the bow of a boat, and getting into the backseat of a car together. Photos taken without their knowledge, and certainly without their permission.

We discuss Karl Stefanovic’s new relationship on Mamamia Out Loud. Post continues below.

But my overwhelming response to the gossip (I repeat gossip – not news) can be summarised into one monosyllabic word:

Ouch.

Ouch because it’s so familiar. Ouch because the woman he was married to for 21 years, 44-year-old Cassandra Thorburn, no doubt has access to the internet.

Of course, I do not claim to have any idea what Thorburn is feeling right now. They split up five months ago, and by all reports she is happy and unperturbed.

Karl Stefanovic and Cassandra Thorburn. Source: Getty Images.

So perhaps this has nothing to do with Thorburn at all. Perhaps I am feeling for The Cassandra Thorburns, of whom I know many.

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The woman who might have put her career on the back-burner. Who might have put her husband's career before her own.

The woman who made sacrifices.

The woman who juggled countless responsibilities.

The woman whose marriage has broken down, and now she is grieving.

The woman whose ex partner has moved on with a woman 10 years her junior.

A woman with no children.

A woman with relatively few domestic responsibilities.

A woman who can lie on a yacht and party until 2am.

A woman who our culture reads as in her 'prime'.

This cultural phenomenon, of middle aged men moving on with women many years younger than them, is no ones 'fault' necessarily.

Stefanovic is single. He is not doing anything wrong or inconsiderate.

He has not "gone public" with his new relationship, in fact, it would appear that he has done all he can to keep it private. From what we can tell he's desperately tried to protect his ex partner and children, from a life that none of them chose.

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Maxine Harrison2 years ago

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You think being in you forties an fifties is bad wait till the sixties hit, you are jus a little old lady to everyone then,, even though you still feel vibrant an healthy an pretty, you go through a terrible grief when you notice that nobody see's you like that ,your jus old , your jus a nanna,, every now an then you will see an older man take a second look an smile at you those little treasures make your day,, he still see's the attractive women you are an have to keep reminding yourself of :) those older men arent that old either :)

JennyK2 years ago

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How on earth do you know all this. No one has a clue what went on in Karl and Cassandra's marriage except them . It's easy to make a marriage look like it's working when it isn't. It's easy for one partner to paint a picture of it that's false. Best not to make a judgement call on this one I think. We don't know enough.